{"id":145612,"date":"2024-07-04T21:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/britains-decrepit-homes-cause-three-big-problems-luckily-this-green-policy-could-fix-them-all-diyora-shadijanova\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T21:06:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T14:06:01","slug":"britains-decrepit-homes-cause-three-big-problems-luckily-this-green-policy-could-fix-them-all-diyora-shadijanova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/britains-decrepit-homes-cause-three-big-problems-luckily-this-green-policy-could-fix-them-all-diyora-shadijanova\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s decrepit homes cause three big problems. Luckily, this green policy could fix them all | Diyora Shadijanova"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRetrofitting housing would help renters\u2019 rights and finances and accelerate energy transition \u2013 it\u2019s time politicians embraced itIn my last rental home, there was a mysterious hole in the external wall of our living room. It was the size of a 50p coin, and you could see right through it to the pub opposite our house. No one knew how it got there, but it had its uses: I learned to gauge the outside temperature by holding my hand up to it. The hole soon symbolised the litany of problems our private landlord never cared to deal with, as well as our eye-watering energy bills. On cold mornings, I wondered if the seats in the Range Rover he drove were heated.Policies for housing, renting and green renewal are interconnected. On average, heating homes that are drafty adds hundreds of pounds a year to people\u2019s bills. It also causes tonnes of environmental pollution: in 2021, warming the UK\u2019s 28m homes accounted for almost 20% of all its greenhouse gas emissions. Considering that 80% of buildings standing in 2050 have already been built and we have some of the oldest and leakiest housing stock in western Europe, these homes must be retrofitted and insulated. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Retrofitting housing would help renters\u2019 rights and finances and accelerate energy transition \u2013 it\u2019s time...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-BSA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":172084,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/iwi-housing-group-rescues-failed-rotorua-development-mountview-green-to-build-39-homes\/","url_meta":{"origin":145612,"position":0},"title":"Iwi housing group rescues failed Rotorua development Mountview Green to build 39 homes","date":"June 28, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"\r When the developer went bust, K\u014dhanga R\u0101kau Housing stepped in to finish the project.\r \r Source : nzherald.co.nz\/Property\r Read more...Iwi housing group rescues failed Rotorua development Mountview Green to build 39 homes","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":111762,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/van-homes-arent-romantic-they-are-proof-of-our-horrifying-housing-crisis\/","url_meta":{"origin":145612,"position":1},"title":"\u2018Van homes\u2019 aren\u2019t romantic \u2013 they are proof of our horrifying housing crisis","date":"October 21, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r More than 21,000 people applied to convert their vehicles into dwellings in the past year. 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